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MakeUseOf » iOS http://www.makeuseof.com Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:31:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How To Encrypt Data on Your Smartphone http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-encrypt-data-on-your-smartphone/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-encrypt-data-on-your-smartphone/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:00:15 +0000 Guy McDowell http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=160025

With the Prism-Verizon scandal, what allegedly has been happening is that the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) has been data mining. That is, they have been going through the call records of Verizon's approximately 99 million users looking for, well, anything! If the thought of the occasionally overzealous government official isn't enough reason to encrypt your smartphone, then all the identity thieves and scammers out there ought to be. Today, I'm going to show you a few things you can do to make that information a bit more secure.

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If you check your email a lot on your iPhone like I do, you now have some awesome choices as to which iOS mail client you use. Quite frankly, Apple's default iOS Mail client can't compare to the recently released third-party mobile apps, including Mail Pilot, Mailbox, Cloze and my favorite, the one trick pony Triage. If you want to actually do something with your emails, and get the functionality of many desktop mail clients, then you might want to check out the recently released Dispatch mail app for the iPhone.

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iOS user or not, you’ve probably heard of the latest release from Apple. iOS 7 is only available in beta so far, but has already made some waves, with users calling it anything from revolutionary to the bastard son of Android and Windows Phone. So where do you stand when it comes to iOS 7?

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No, it isn't April Fools Day, and no Steve Ballmer hasn't gone totally insane and switched to the Dark Side Of The Net. Microsoft really has introduced an iOS app for Office, but there's a catch - to use it, you need a paid Office 365 subscription. Now there's the Microsoft we all know and love - the money-obsessed company that would barf up a lung if they were asked to give away something free.

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Tower defense games are one of the most well-suited genres for playing on the go. Relative to other genres, they are fairly passive, and they allow the player to plant their towers, defend their bases, and only half focus. Today, we're putting two of the more popular tower defense games on the App Store head-to-head: in an interesting clash we have Fieldrunners 2, which comes with a $2.99 price tag, and Towers N' Trolls, which is a free-to-play.

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A new generation of iOS is nearly upon us, revealed at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference last week. Guided strongly by (Sir) Jony Ive, iOS 7 marks a clear departure from the skeumorphic UI elements of the past decade as 3D shadows and leather stitching have been replaced with clean lines and flat layers. In terms of features, there's certainly nothing groundbreaking - but more than enough to bring iOS inline with the competition. Read on for a sneak preview of what's to come in iOS7, arriving in the autumn.

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The best camera you can possibly lay your hands on is the one that you currently have on you, or so the saying goes. Ever since hardware manufacturers started putting bigger and better cameras on our devices, we're always in the presence of a capable camera - so what about video? If you have a recent smartphone capable of shooting 1080p full-HD video, you might be surprised at the potential you have in your pocket. With the right apps, techniques and a few inexpensive accessories you could turn your iPhone or similar into a highly capable video capture device.

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During Apple's opening WWDC opening presentation this past Monday, Craig Federighi, VP of Software Engineering, introduced a tighter "activation lock" for iOS 7, to be released this Fall. The new security feature is designed to prevent a thief from reactivating a stolen iPhone, or turning off the Find My iPhone signal without the owner's iCloud username and password.

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]]> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ios-7-features-new-activation-lock-to-prevent-stolen-iphone-reactivation-updates/feed/ 6 How To Access iOS 7 Beta (And Downgrade To iOS 6) http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-ios-7-beta-and-downgrade-to-ios-6/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-ios-7-beta-and-downgrade-to-ios-6/#comments Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:30:03 +0000 Tim Brookes http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=160514

The web is awash with talk of Apple's new mobile operating system in the wake of WWDC 2013. As with all new iterations of iOS, Apple developers get access before the rest of us who will have to wait till "fall" for the official build. While having your own developer account is one way to secure early access to the iOS 7 beta, it's not the only way of doing so. There are a couple of other things you can try, so if you lack patience and absolutely need to get your mitts on iOS 7 - read on.

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]]> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-ios-7-beta-and-downgrade-to-ios-6/feed/ 14 RunKeeper Updates iOS App With New Social Features [Updates] http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/runkeeper-updates-ios-app-with-new-social-features-updates/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/runkeeper-updates-ios-app-with-new-social-features-updates/#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:00:44 +0000 Dave LeClair http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=160413

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RunKeeper, the popular iOS application for keeping track of your runs, walks, and bike rides, has just updated to version 3.5. With this update, users will now get a whole new social way to interact with their fellow runners directly from within the free application.

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If you use Evernote on your iPad or iPhone, you may have found it difficult to get copies of articles, snippets of text, or photos from you device into your Evernote account without having to copy content from one application and paste it into another. Thanks to a handful of third-party developers, there are several apps which enable you to export content directly to your Evernote account without having to open the app. Read on to find out how to better make use of Evernote on iOS.

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Apple has just revealed iOS 7, calling it "the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone". iOS 7 brings a new interface, icons, color palette and typography to the old mobile OS, as well as new features such as Control Center, improved Notification Center, multitasking, and the much anticipated iTunes Radio.

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If you're a student or someone who regularly records lectures, meetings, or music, a new feature rich iOS app called Recordium allows you to manage, highlight, annotate, edit, and share recordings right from an iPhone - the app runs rings around Voice Memos when it comes to what can be done with audio. Two years ago, I highlighted and reviewed Blue Microphone's Blue FiRe as the best audio recorder app for the iPhone, but Recordium now surpasses it.

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Say the Same Thing (STSG) is a new game, available as a free iOS and Android download, which comes to us courtesy of the band OK Go. Letterpress made a splash when it launched last year, Pictionary-like Draw Something was a huge hit, and there's lots of popular iOS word games like 7 Little Words that will keep you busy for hours. STSG is a new word association game that brings a bit of vocabulary fun into your day.

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With so much access to information nowadays, it's quite simple to find whatever interests you. However, people still neglect to research from who they buy products, and what those people or corporations stand for. You might be interested in knowing their political leanings, as well as their business practices, so you can be a responsible citizen and speak with your purchasing power.

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